An­a­lysts noted that man­u­fac­tur­ing growth in June was un­sur­pris­ing, as May saw a large num­ber of public hol­i­days cut into out­put – es­pe­cially in the au­to­mo­tive sec­tor.

Mean­while, an­other weak show­ing for con­struc­tion con­firmed that slow­ing pro­duc­tion over the sec­ond quar­ter was “largely trace­able to de­lays due to bad weather in the con­struc­tion sec­tor”, the econ­omy min­istry said in a state­ment.

Look­ing ahead, ob­servers saw lit­tle prospect of a resur­gent Ger­man econ­omy over the sec­ond half of the year. –